we're going to be finishing up our
Nielsen cycle this year the program has
his amazing fifth and six symphonies the
fifth symphony which is undeniable
masterpiece hasn't been played by the
New York Philharmonic for 10 years and
amazingly the sixth symphony has never
been done so this is really an important
moment I think they're both I think
graspable on the first on the first
hearing and they're both tonal and
romantic and expressive and exciting and
vivid there is more that you can say is
iconoclastic about about the sixth but
it's it's not weird by any stretch of
the imagination it's just very very
clear and personal which I'm sure that
our audience is going to absolutely dig
it
you
I can hardly believe that we're at this
point at the end of a recording project
that is really really major I think back
to the kind of the genesis of the idea
and it was it was pretty simple I i
thought you know the New York
Philharmonic has the perfect sound and
perfect approached for Nielsen's music
and of course they'd played his fourth
symphony especially his fifth symphony
ironik concerto here and there but there
were corners of the repertoire the full
range of his symphonies that the Osher
hadn't explored and I feel like we've
really gotten to know his music over
these last years because he's truly a
great composer his music is is somehow I
would describe as mainstream European
symphonic music combined with a very
distinctive Nordic Danish Scandinavian
it's hard to quite pin it down but
there's definitely something that is
special about his voice in the way that
only great composers have a have a
unique voice